Biomedical Engineering

The Biomedical Engineering Degree Course (class L 8)  is offered entirely in English  and was designed to train a professional who is able to fit into highly differentiated and rapidly evolving production realities, such as those in the biomedical sector. The professional profile that the degree course intends to train is that of  a professional able to operate in the public and private sectors to cover roles at the level of junior designer and expert user of biomedical technologies. The educational path also allows students to continue their studies with access to Master's Degrees or University Masters in order to deepen their skills through highly qualified courses in specific fields.

The Degree Course uses engineering methodologies and technologies to describe, understand and solve problems of medical-biological interest through a  close interdisciplinary collaboration between the Departmental Faculties of Engineering and Medicine and Surgery of the University. The interaction with the environment, the engineering of new materials, prostheses and artificial organs, biomedical equipment and instruments, the treatment of biomedical images and signals, ICT applications, represent an essential contribution to progress by stimulating important investments and creating job opportunities. The initial part of the educational path (I and II year) is strongly oriented towards a basic preparation, in which the student acquires the essential elements of the scientific disciplines which constitute the indispensable foundations of Engineering studies. The basics of mathematics, physics and chemistry are accompanied, in the first year, by the teaching of Physiology and anatomy (provided by teachers of the Departmental Faculty of Medicine and Surgery) which constitutes the foundation for the specific contents of subsequent biomedical engineering courses. In the final part of the course (III year), students are provided with up-to-date tools and methods for solving analysis/design problems relevant to Biomedical Engineering. The methodological rigor of the setting of the basic teachings is aimed at developing the student's aptitude for logical-scientific reasoning.

Among the didactic activities, as for all the Degree and Master's Degree Courses of the University, there are teachings that aim to provide the conceptual tools, borrowed from ethical, deontological, epistemological and historical-philosophical principles and methods, which contribute to the formation of a critical spirit of the student. 

The presence of teaching laboratories and research laboratories allows the student to carry out experimental training activities that integrate the theoretical knowledge acquired through institutional teachings.